Insider trading laws are for the plebs. Tip off your cousin about an acquisition by a public company? Go to prison. Tip off your cronies about war? Business as usual.

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leonidasrup 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that it had charged 30 people allegedly linked with a decade-long insider trading scheme involving high-profile law firms."

https://www.newsweek.com/premier-law-firms-spy-ring-11920914

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guff_se 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Let me guess, these guys said something bad about Trump? Not that it means that they didn’t do it, just that they would not have gotten charged otherwise.

	▲	fny 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The list doesn't corroborate that. The international component seems important.

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seany an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly, insider trading laws should be removed since they manipulate markets. If you know things, make moves that are public, that would price things _more_ accurately.